Bart Ehrman Quotes
I was daily his delight, Rejoicing before him always, Rejoicing in his inhabited world And delighting in the human race.
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There's almost nothing you can't do with a cashew. Not only does it lend its nutty sweetness to savory dishes, it also gives desserts a deep richness.
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If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.
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You don't have to find out you're dying to start living.
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They are more like artistic names. Bá is a nickname. It's short for Gá. When I learned to spell letters and words, instead of calling him Gabriel [Ba], I called him Babio. People call him Gá and I call him Bá. So Bá is a nickname.
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No matter how bad things are, they could always be worse. Start finding gratitude for what might have happened, but didn't.
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Just don't hold back. Don't be afraid to make mistakes and stuff.
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An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.
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I don't work with an outline, except a vague one in my head, a general idea of character, place, arc... I'm like a composer with a symphony in their head: I can hear the music, I just have to figure out how to put it down on paper. But I don't always know where my stories are going when I begin.
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If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?
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I wear sunglasses because of the glare of spotlights. I wear gloves because it is very cold.
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Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.
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What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work!
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A reasonable man adjusts himself to the world. An unreasonable man expects the world to adjust itself to him. Therefore all progress is made by unreasonable people.
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Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it.
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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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To mourn deeply for the death of another loosens from myself the petty desire for, and the animal adherence to life. We have gained the end of the philosopher, and view without shrinking the coffin and the pall.
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I was daily his delight, Rejoicing before him always, Rejoicing in his inhabited world And delighting in the human race.
